BALLE Film Fest
First-Ever BALLE Film Fest
at UC Berkeley's Wheeler Auditorium
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TUESDAY, MAY 29
6:00 p.m.
Manufactured Landscapes (90 min.) This stunning documentary follows artist Edward Burtynsky as he captures the effects of China’s massive industrial revolution.
In person: Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal and artist Edward Burtynsky.
8:30 p.m.
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (53 min.) Faith Morgan films the story of Cuba’s transition from large plantations using petroleum-based pesticides to small organic farms and urban gardens.
Six Feet Over (25 min.) This gripping documentary examines the effects of climate change on low-lying islands in the South Pacific.
In person: Filmmaker Aaron Selverston.
Flip Flotsam (26 min.) Filmed in the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya by directors and producers Etienne Oliff and Lucy Bateman, this beautifully photographed documentary traces the unique life-cycle of Africa’s most popular shoe: the flip-flop.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
6:00 p.m.
Everything’s Cool (100 min.) How can we create the political will necessary to address global warming and move to an alternative energy economy? Award-winning filmmakers Judith Helfand and Daniel Gold examine the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific understanding and political action.
In person: Producer Chris Pilaro and environmentalist Mike Shellenberger.
8:30 p.m.
A Drop of Life (21 min.) By writer, director, activist Shalini Kantayya. Set in the near future, this is the story of two women, a schoolteacher of rural India and an ambitious African American executive, whose disparate lives intersect when each is confronted with an inhumane lack of clean drinking water.
The Forest for the Trees (57 min.) The amazing story of the fight to clear Earth First! activist Judi Bari's name after her car was bombed and she was arrested as a terrorist. Filmmaker Bernadine Mellis is the daughter of 68-year-old civil rights lawyer Dennis Cunningham, who took on Judi's case, Judi Bari v. the FBI.



